Opinions of Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Columnist: Michael Jarvis Bokor
Folks, for many days now, so much idle talks has been going on concerning the non-title bout between Samir Bastie and Bukom Banku. I am disgusted by all that bull crap.
So much airtime is given to this bull crap as if there is nothing more important to engage us.
Now, Bukom Banku himself is adding something too idiotic for my liking: "Give me a break; even Mahama lost an election"
While the economy continues to stagnate and the Akufo-Addo family-and-friends government is fast devising clever means to fleece the system, shouldn't public discourse be energized by better issues than this Bukom Banku nonsense?
From hindsight, though, it is not difficult to know the reason for this fixation on this matter, especially now that the anti-Mahama elements have begun raising issues with the kinds of people that Mahama associated himself with while in power and why he lost Election 2016.
Mahama lost the elections; but was he the first Ghanaian leader to do so? What lesson has his loss taught us?
I've asked this question because happenings under Akufo-Addo thus far clearly indicate that nothing new is being introduced into governance style. It is obvious that the very acute criticisms that the NPP raised against Mahama's leadership style aren't influencing how Akufo-Addo is leading his team.
In effect, nothing drastically new has emerged so far to give Ghana a different path toward development. So, apart from the filling of the old wine bottle with "new" wine, what has changed?
No new policies to discipline public office holders, to sanitize the public system itself, or to improve governance. Nothing new at all on the horizon. Instead, lies, deception, and deep-seated cunning mechanisms for stealing public funds are in force.